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Publication of this book has been supported by the International Center of Medieval Art and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. This book was also published with the generous assistance of a Book Subvention Award from the Medieval Academy of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kingsley, Jennifer P., 1978– , author.

The Bernward Gospels : art, memory, and the episcopate in medieval Germany / Jennifer P. Kingsley.

p. cm

Summary: “An interpretive study of the pictorial program of the Ottonian Bernward Gospels. Examines how the manuscript conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember early medieval Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim”—Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-271-06079-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Bernward Gospels—Illustrations. 2. Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, approximately 960–1022. 3. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval—Germany—Hildesheim. 4. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian—Germany—Hildesheim. 5. Evangeliaries—Germany—Hildesheim—Illustrations. 6. Bible. Gospels—Illustrations. 7. Catholic Church—Liturgy—Texts—Illustrations. 8. Christian art and symbolism—Germany—Hildesheim—Medieval, 500–1500. 9. Diözesan-Museum Hildesheim. I. Title.

ND3359.B47K56 2014

745.6’70943595—dc23

2013026637

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Frontispiece: Hildesheim, Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, Domschatz 18 (Bernward Gospels), fol. 175v (detail), Portrait of John. Courtesy Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, Hildesheim.